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The Waking Ashes

A momentum driven sci-fi action shooter. Dash, teleport, slow time and fly in six degrees of freedom to survive relentless combat. Customize and upgrade your weapon and ability load-out to push through escalating enemy encounters in a strange zero gravity open world.

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Dan Carey Bailey
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Dan Carey Bailey
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About the Game

The Waking Ashes throws you into relentless combat across a world shattered by its own designer, Temple. You are its unwilling creation, dragged back into life time and time again, less out of compassion and more out of an obsessive clinical necessity.

Claw your way through ruined landscapes and twisted creatures, chasing scraps of freedom in a place where stone, magic, and spirit have fused into unholy drones of Temple's will.

Build your own fighting style from an upgradable arsenal of deadly weapons, strange powers and abilities. Blink through space, slow the flow of time, or unleash devastating tactical strikes. When the physical world grows too predictable, breach the boundary into the Deep Array - a warped pocket dimension where Temple’s true form resides.

Features:

  • Zero-gravity six-degree-of-freedom flight combat

  • Customizable, upgradable loadouts across primary, secondary, ability slots, and character attributes

  • A vast open world with progression and hidden secrets

  • Upgrade consoles, lore logs, and ancient mini-bosses to uncover a haunting narrative

  • Transition into the Deep Array to overcome impossible odds defeating waves of enemies

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